Dick’s Sporting Goods Benches Tim Tebow

The Jets’ season is over, presumably ending Tim Tebow’s miserable stint there as well, but there’s still a little bit more indignity that he has to put up with. New York resident, Scott Hochenberg, tweeted out the picture of Dick’s Sporting Goods’ perhaps inadvertent yet hilarious below-the-belt jab at the quarterback.

The move is just one in a season’s worth of disses that the kid has had to endure. I guess we’ll all have to wait for Rex Ryan’s tell-all book (there will be one eventually!) to learn the rationale behind trading for Tebow. And since Jacksonville has been rumored to be going after him, one can only hope they have a real plan to develop his intangibles into production.

I don’t think Tebow is an “NFL quarterback” in the sense that he should be playing for any team for more than one season. He is however, a quite suitable stop-gap solution. I guarantee you the Jags would have won more than two games if they had started Tebow over Gabbert/Henne. It’s better to have somebody do something less than ideal well, than it is to try to have people do things they can’t do poorly.